McCollum v. Sieben’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.2d 708 · 1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1982
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Wissner v. Wissner · Bradley v. United States · Claffy v. Forbes · Johnson v. White · Weil v. Commissioner
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence of intention to change the beneficiary ‘standing alone and unaccompanied by some affirmative act, having for its purpose the effectuation of his intention, is insufficient to effect a change of beneficiary and the courts cannot act when he has not first attempted to act for himself.’ Bradley v. United States, 10 Cir., 143 F.2d 573 , 576, and cases cited therein; * * * ” 211 F.2d 708 , 712.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“before his death, * * * had done all that reasonably could have been expected of him to bring about the change”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.